Dance: The Dancing Master

96-bar Jig
4 couples
Set shape: Square

Devised by:

John Drewry (1989)

Formations:

Set and Rotate (SETROT;2C;)
Hands across - 3 (HX;3P;)
Reel of three - across (REEL;ACROSS;R3;)
Reel of eight (REEL;R8;)
Hands round - 8 - and back (HR;8P;BACK;)
Note: Due to limitations in the underlying data, the relative order of formations in this list may be different from the order of formations in the actual dance.

Steps:

Skip-Change
Pas-de-Basque
Slip-Step

Published in:

The Donside Book [4] *
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [37]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [35]
The Reel [189]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [46]

Recommended Music:

The Dancingmaster ((traditional))
A Visit to Ireland ((traditional))

Recordings (8): Show tunes

Dancing Forth (Gordon Shand and his Scottish Dance Band), track 1
Craigellachie in Oxford (The Craigellachie Band), track 10 [pace 11.8]
Jig for Joy (The Music Makars), track 7 [pace 11.9]
See You Jimmy! (Ian J Morrison), track 2
See You Jimmy! (Ian J Morrison), track 3
Reflections of Dalriada (Hugh Ferguson and the Dalriada Scottish Dance Band), track 4
A Dancing Master Remembered (Jennifer Wilson), track 1
75th Anniversary of London Branch (Green Ginger), track 5 [pace 37.0]

Crib

Search the Strathspey Archive for information on The Dancing Master

Important Public Service Announcement

The entry for this dance has not yet been verified against the original publication, The Donside Book. If you have access to this publication, please consider cross-checking the information given here and submitting a correction if necessary, either using the link below or by direct e-mail to Alan Paterson.

Submit a comment or correction to the database maintainer (for improving the database, not for direct publication here)